Beacon Mobile

Application For Museums

With Extensive In-House
Location Based Features
And Custom CMS
 Beacon Based Mobile Application for Android and iOS

Project
Details
Business Scenario
The Museum that Navjivan Trust runs is visited by
Customer Size Mid-Size Organization around 7,00,000 visitors from across the world. The
Country India museum preserves and displays various content
Domain Non-Prot Organization related to Gandhis life such as his Personal relics,
34,117 letters (Originals and Photostats) and
Technology iOS and Android App works in
35,000+ books related to his life and teachings. The
Mobile and Tablets, Angular 2, premise of the Museum is large along with four
Node.JS with MySQL DB sites called Nandini, Vinoba Kutir, Upasana
Mandir and Magan Niwas. The Museum has
various picture galleries like My Life is My
Message, Gandhi in Ahmedabad and Life-size oil
painting.

With such a large premise and repository, Navjivan

Trust wanted to enhance the experience of the
visitors and also wished to encourage the Gandhian
learning amongst the youth of this generation.
They have been funding various activities to
educate the visitors but with such large premise
and high number of footfall, doing justice to each
and every visitor was a big challenge. Also,
IoT Based Mobile communicating the on-going activities like
seminars, audio tours, educational events was a
Application For challenging task. With such scenario, they
approached Cygnet to develop a technology that
Android And iOS fullled their following requirements,

Platform To educate the visitors with relevant

information about the place and artifact as
they visit
To notify the visitors about the on-going

activities across various premises
Client
Profile
To guide visitors about the near-by events and
exhibitions
Enable in-house navigation
Navjivan Trust is a renowned publication
house which was founded by the great
Mahatma Gandhi in the year 1929. They Mobile Application Integrated with
have published 800 titles in multiple
languages based on the Gandhism with a the BLE Devices To Enhance The
motive to keep the principles of Gandhi
Experience Of Museum Visitors

alive. Apart from publication, they also
manage a museum to preserve and display
Gandhis writings, photographs, paintings
and voice-records.

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Cygnets Solution
Cygnet oered a scalable Android and iOS (iphone & ipad) mobile application integrated with the BLE
(along with accelerometer and temperature sensor) devices also known as Beacons with real-time
in-house GPS tracking, continuous advertising and push-notications enabled with geo-fencing.

Following are features of the solution developed by the team of 4 expert Mobile Application Engineers:

Prompts: Visitors were provided with notication on their smartphones when they came in immediate
proximity of the beacon. The notication was about the content related to the artifact that they are
visiting. The pop-up of the content was aligned with the minor UUID of the Beacon.

Push Notications: The visitors were also informed of the near-by attractions and on-going events using
the Near and Far TxPower range of the beacon using push notications and display screens. Each and
every event and attractions were aligned with the major UUIDs of the Beacon.

Easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS ): To educate the visitors with relevant information
and to help them aggregate their visit experience even when they are o the premise, relevant articles
and galleries were integrated into the mobile application using the Custom CMS. The UX of the
application was made simple using Angular JS and NodeJS so that users can easily manage their content
the way they nd convenient.

GPS Tour Guide: Complete oor plan of the museum was developed using the Beacons and it was used
to navigate the visitors to the dierent places in the Museum. Also, it was used to align the audio tour of
the museum along with various multimedia contents.

Donations: The application can also accept donations from various visitors with multiple payment
options like PayPal, PayU, PayTM, using the Payment Gateway Integration.

Following is how we Calibrated Beacons with the Mobile Application:

Estimote Beacons were selected for the museum because of their extended battery life and its
ready-to-use feature.
Proximity of Beacons was set for at TxPower range between 3 dBm to 10 dBm

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Benefits to the End Users

Satisfactory and interactive experience of the
museum
Ability to locate near-by activities and events in
real-time
Access to the content of the museum on and o
the premise
Relevant and additional information about the
content of the museum with audio-tours and
multimedia contents

Benefits to the Client

Using Beacons enabled client to provide
cost-eective in-house location based facilities to
the visitors
Technology enabled client to provide interactive
and unied experience to their visitors
Client was able to communicate with each and
every visitor both on and o the premises
The application also boosted donations by 15%
Museum had 20% more footfall due to positive
word of mouth and appropriate communication of
events and promotional activities

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